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Category Archives: Textual study
Thoughts From The Prophets: Is It Useless To Serve God?
“ ‘Your words have been harsh against Me’ says the LORD, “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ You have said “It is useless to serve God; what profit is it that we have kept His ordinances, and … Continue reading
Posted in prophets, Suffering, Temptation, Textual study
Tagged a book of remembrance, a lifetime without seeing reward, envy the wicked, is it useless to serve God, job 13, job 19, job 27, Luke 16, Malachi 3:13-15, proverbs 19:3, psalm 73, randal matheny, thoughts from the Prophets:, why wicked prosper
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Thoughts From The Prophets: Robbing God
“Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings” (Malachi 3:8). The children of Israel had returned from captivity about a century earlier. Many things … Continue reading
Posted in Giving, prophets, Textual study, worship
Tagged complacency, cursed, garland elkins, giving God left overs, homer hailey, lethargy, Malachi 3:8, power lectures, profaned name of lord, robbing God, roy deaver, thomas b. warren, thoughts from the Prophets:, tithes and offerings, wayne jackson, worship vain
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Thoughts From The Prophets: Not By Might Nor By Power
“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). Immediately before this, Zechariah saw a vision. The vision included a lampstand of solid … Continue reading
Thoughts From The Prophets: A Bag With Holes
“Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: consider your ways! You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no … Continue reading
Thoughts From The Prophets: Seek The LORD, Righteousness, and Humility
“Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger” (Zephaniah 2:3). Judgement was coming on the … Continue reading
Posted in Dedication, Humility, Judgment, prophets, Repentance, Textual study
Tagged apostacy, complacency, corrupt leaders, darrell conley, garland elkins, homer hailey, idolatry, power lectures, seceit, seek humility, seek righteousness, seek the Lord, thomas b. warren, thoughts from the Prophets:, trust in wrong things, violence, why judgement, Zephaniah 2:3
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Thoughts From The Prophets: Keep Silence Before Him
“But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him” (Habakkuk 2:20). The context concerns idols. The previous two verses read, “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, the molded … Continue reading
Posted in prophets, Textual study
Tagged esv study bible, garland elkins, Habakkuk 2:20, homer hailey, idolatry, let all keep silent before him, power lectures, prayer v bible reading, respect, song : the lord is in his holy temple by william j. kirkpatrick, stephen wiggins, the lord is in his holy temple, thomas b. warren, thoughts from the Prophets:
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Thoughts From The Prophets: Justice, Mercy and Humility
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8). The prophet Micah was trying to promote … Continue reading
